India The second Test match between India and England is being played from today at the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. In the match, Team India won the toss and decided to bat first. Rajat Patidar got a chance to debut for India. Whereas 20-year-old Shoaib Bashir made his debut in international cricket for England.

Let us tell you that just a few months ago, Shoaib Bashir made his first-class debut for Somerset in the English County Championship match against Essex. However, despite poor performances in his initial matches, Bashir managed to impress England captain Ben Stokes.

Actually, Somerset had released the video of Bashir bowling against the brilliant spin player Alastair Cook from the social media platform ‘X’. In that video, Bashir, who was 19 years old at that time, had completely dodged the legendary batsman.

After watching the video clip, Stokes immediately forwarded it to a WhatsApp group in which head coach Brendon McCullum and ECB managing director Rob Key were connected.

I forwarded that clip: Stokes

Talking about that moment, the England Test captain said, “To be honest, the first live glimpse I got was at the bash in Abu Dhabi, the first time I saw him was on Twitter. The County Championship had posted a short clip of his bowling against Sir Alistair. I’m in a WhatsApp group with Kessie and Baz. I actually forwarded that clip and said, take a look at this, this is something we can work with on our India tour.

I saw some. The height from which he bowled, it was very clear that there was a lot of action, a lot of spin on the ball. This was something that I saw and thought, this could be very good for India. I have played a lot of games here. As a batsman, you know what is difficult to face, especially from a spin perspective.